Hi, I am facing a strange problem. I recently installed LM 6.0 but the system does not flush its file-system buffers unless we do it manually by sync or when we unmount the file-system. I checked the bdflush parameters and found them to be acceptable. One thing that I found is that the system does not have bdflushd running and a comment in the inittab said it has been obsoleted in in 2.2.9 kernel. Instead of bdflushd a kernel thread 'kflushd' has been introduced. It doesn't seem to work properly. Any hints. I uncommented the update line in inittab and now things appear to be fine but what about the kernel thread. At my place power breakdown is not a rare thing to happen. What I observed is that the system leaves all the files to zero length that were opened for writing after the last manual sync. Please help. I also do not know about the implications of executing bdflush with this kernel. Thanx in advance Kshitiz -- _______________________________________________________ Kshitiz Krishna Department of Computer Science Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
